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World's 2nd factor VII factory launched in Iran
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched the production line of antibody products at AryoGen factory on Monday which produces biotechnological medicines and is the second factory in the world producing blood factor VII, IRIB News Agency reported. - 2/7/12
Iranian scientist's method protects immature cancer boys' fertility
An Iranian scientist managed to develop a new method to propagate human spermatogonial stem cells from small testicular biopsies to obtain adequate number of cells for successful transplantation for 18000-fold in vitro, leading to protection of the fertility of immature boys suffering from cancer. - 2/5/12
Iranian ophthalmologist uses new technique for silicone oil removal
Iranian ophthalmologist Khalil Ghasemi Falavarjani managed to push out the heavy silicone oil from the sclerotomy without using any suction pump. - 2/1/12
Iranian scientists produce new drugs
Iran unveiled 6 new biotechnological medicines Sunday in presence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The products include two newly-built drugs and four ingredients required for producing medicines. - 1/29/12
Breaking the Embargo on NGOs in Iran
During my last visit to Iran I came across a few grassroots organizations which inspired me to write this short note for Iranians outside of Iran to be informed of the importance of such organizations. -Roksana Bahramitash - 1/18/12
Iran starts developing vaccine for cervical cancer
Iranian scientists have started developing a vaccine for protecting women from cervical cancer, taking a giant step in preventing the deadly disease. - 1/15/12
Iranian scientist develops new technique to fight cancer
An Iranian scientist Omid Farokhzad managed to create a drug delivery system capable of delivering a great amount of chemotherapeutic drugs to prostate cancer cells. - 1/13/12
Iran's IAEA Envoy: 'Enrichment in Fordo meant to produce radioisotopes for patients'
Tehran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has brushed aside media commotion over the operation of nuclear activities in the Fordo enrichment facility, saying the purpose of enrichment activities in the facility is to provide radioisotopes needed for cancer patients. - 1/10/12
Iran's professor designs electronic lenses for blood sugar control
An Iranian professor Babak Amir Parviz from the University of Washington managed to design electronic contact lenses with glucose sensor, capable of monitoring blood sugar levels wirelessly. - 1/9/12
Iran to gain self-sufficiency in vaccine production
Iranian Deputy Health Minister for Research and technology Mostafa Ghanei said Iran would gain self-sufficiency in vaccine production in next two years. - 1/2/12
Iranian, German scientists identify 50 mental retardation genes
An Iranian medical scientist and the Director of Genetics Research Center at Iranian University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences Hossein Najmabadi noted mental retardation includes two or three percents of the whole retardations in the world - 1/1/12
Circumcision Gains More Acceptance in AIDS Fight
If 80 percent of men in the 14 countries are circumcised, 3.4 million new infections could be averted and $16.5 billion in HIV/AIDS treatment costs could be saved, Curran said. Reaching 80 percent would entail performing 20 million circumcisions on men ages 15-49 by 2015, according to UNAIDS. - 12/28/11
Photos: Isfahan Grapples With Air Pollution
Air pollution in the provincial city of Isfahan in central Iran has reached above safe levels. Similar problems in the capital city Tehran has prompted the Health Ministry to issue a warning for the elderly and children to avoid any unnecessary travel to the city center. - 12/24/11
Severe Air Pollution Hits Tehran
Rising level of air pollution in the capital city of Tehran has forced people with respiratory and heart ailments to stay at home, Press TV reports. Iran's Health Ministry has issued a warning for the elderly and children to avoid any unnecessary travel to the city center. - 12/23/11
UN: HIV Infections Growing In Russia, Ukraine
The report has praise for Iran, saying HIV prevalence has "declined steadily" in the country since peaking in 2005 -- in part due to efforts by authorities to address health problems among injecting drug users. - 12/1/11
Freed Iranian doctors say Amnesty International campaign gave them hope
Iranian doctors Arash and Kamiar Alaei, imprisoned for their internationally renowned work on HIV/AIDs, were at a low point when they heard of Amnesty International's campaign to free them. It was the autumn of 2008 and, after four months of interrogation or solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin prison, they feared they had been forgotten. - 11/20/11
Iran, first country to propagate spermatogonial stem cells
Iranian scientists developed methods to propagate spermatogonial stem cells for the first time in the world. - 11/20/11
Photos: Iran's Kidney "ebay"
Iran is the only country in the world where kidney trading is legal. The young people wishing to sell a kidney can simply report to the reception of one of the official kidney referral agencies. But many also auction their kidneys by posting information about themselves, blood types or their asking prices on the walls in the streets. -Armin Karami - 11/17/11
Photos: Unique shoulder transplant by Iranian surgery team
The amputated arm of a workman was transplanted on October 22 by an Iranian surgery team led by Seyed Fazlollah Sajjadi, according to ISNA. The workman's hand was cut off by a cement maker machine as a result of which his entire left arm, hand, scapula, clavicle and all the muscles were amputated. - 10/28/11
Single-gender hospitals coming to Iranian provinces
Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi has declared that every Iranian province must establish at least one single-gender hospital. - 10/28/11
Photos: Mud bathing in Lake Urmia - Iran
The lake's salts are considered to have medical effects, especially as a cure for rheumatism. The main cations in the lake water include Na+, K+, Ca2+, Li+ and Mg2+, while Cl-, SO42-, HCO3- are the main anions. The Na+ and Cl- concentration is roughly 4 times the concentration of natural seawater. - 10/27/11
UT Southwestern team restores Dallas man's severed arm
"When the muscles start to die, you cannot put the arm back on," explained Dr. Bardia Amirlak, a University of Texas Southwestern plastic surgeon who was on call at Parkland when Reid was brought in to the trauma center. Dr. Amirlak thought at first there was little chance of saving an arm amputated seven hours earlier, which is typically longer than an amputated limb is viable. -WFAA - 10/27/11
Iranians Face Steep Rise in Medical Bills
The head of the Medical Council of Iran has announced that healthcare costs have increased by 20 to 40 percent in Iran after cuts were made to government subsidies. - 10/13/11
Opium production in Afghanistan shows increase, prices set to rise
Opium poppy-crop cultivation in Afghanistan reached 131,000 hectares in 2011, 7 per cent higher than in 2010, due to insecurity and high prices, said the 2011 Afghan Opium Survey released today by the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). - 10/12/11
Iran's local nano-pharmaceutical to hit market soon
An Iranian nano-pharmaceutical would hit the market by March 2012. The drug is the Middle East's first non-carcinogenic nanomedicine which should be used through injection. Iran will break the US monopoly for the similar medicine after 13 years. - 10/11/11
Iran to Cooperate with India, China in Traditional Medicine
Iranian officials announced on Wednesday that the country has signed a number of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with India and China on cooperation in the development and advancement of traditional medicine. - 10/5/11
Iran: MSF forced to leave Zahedan
At the request of authorities, Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF (Doctors Without Borders) has terminated its medical care activities in the city of Zahedan, capital of the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, in southeastern Iran. - 10/4/11
Ahvaz, Iran World's Most Polluted City: WHO
In a new study, World Health Organization says Ahvaz has the highest measured level of airborne particles small enough to cause serious health problems in humans. Ahvaz is a heavily-industrialized city known for oil fields. - 9/27/11
Ahmadinejad: Iran needs N-fuel to treat 800k patients
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the country needs 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel for the activity of a research reactor that produces medicines for patients. - 9/23/11
Sex Education in the Islamic Republic
This recently issued instruction video, with explicit references to relations between the sexes and tips for pleasurable love making, received permits from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and also from the Ministry of Health and Human Services. As Mardomak, the website that first posted the DVDs, put it, it's probably the first of its kind in the Islamic Republic. -PBS - 9/12/11
"Mission: Restore" to Perform Reconstructive Surgery in Iran
Mission: Restore will travel to Iran on October 28th, 2011 through November 10th, 2011 to perform reconstructive plastic surgery on children in the city of Bam. The 2003 earthquake was a major earthquake that struck Bam and the surrounding Kerman province of southeastern Iran on Friday, December 26, 2003. - 9/10/11
High-profile Iranian actresses promote breastfeeding in 'Talk to Me' campaign
This is not a usual day of filming for Ms. Hatami. Today, she is hosting another popular actress, UNICEF Iran Ambassador Mahtab Keramati, for a filmed interview on the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding. -UNICEF - 9/8/11
Alternative Healing: Self-Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
I have spent many years of my life working with Multiple Sclerosis in various ways. In this article I am disclosing how one can seal and stop this leak. But before that, you first of all need to break through the solid belief instilled by prevalent western medical knowledge that MS is still 'incurable.' -Roya Monajem - 9/7/11
Iran to run embryonic, non-embryonic stem cells bank
Iran plans to run embryonic and non-embryonic stem cells bank in a bid to meet needs of local researchers and develop its stem cell technology. - 9/5/11
Suicide skyrockets in Iran, government "seems intent on crushing any sign of happiness"
Mehrdad Khonsari, a former Iranian diplomat, told the independent news website "The Media Line" that suicide rates in Iran have always been higher than in the West, but that the aggravated economic and social conditions may have contributed to the new peak, mainly among the country's youth. -Beliefnet - 8/25/11
Iran, AIDS and the Alaei Brothers
Although the Iranian government does not often admit the scope of the HIV/AIDS problem in Iran (it usually admits to about 21,000 cases), estimates are that the total number of Iranians infected with the deadly virus is between 60,000 and 100,000 individuals. - VOA - 8/13/11
Do women without kidneys mean children without future?
Why Iran is one of the leading countries in kidney trade? Why every year thousands of people come into the country for a transplant? Is it because a lot of our fellow citizens in search of money come to the black market, where prices for body are several times higher, and sell their kidney and thus their health? -Amir Mostafavi, RealIran - 8/8/11
Iran makes its biggest ever seizure of opium
Kerman police chief Hossein Chenarian said the drugs cargo consists of 8,685 kilograms of opium which was seized near the city of Kerman. - 8/7/11
Photos: Fish Pedicurists in Tehran
These photos by Abdollah Heydari show the fish pedicurists at work in a salon in Tehran, Iran. Doctor fish is the name given to two species of fish. The fish are like combfishes in that they only consume the affected and dead areas of the skin, leaving the healthy skin to grow - 7/26/11
Iran leads the world in drug seizures: UNODC
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Yury Fedotov has said Iran ranks first in the world in illicit drug seizures. - 7/19/11
UCL Technology Develpoed By Iranian Professor Used In Windpipe Transplant
A University College London scientist (Professor Alexander Seifalian) and his team designed and built the synthetic windpipe 'scaffold' used in an operation in Sweden announced by the Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet today. - 7/15/11
Minister: Iran to Boost Support for Stem Cell Medicare
Iranian Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi announced that Iran has already applied stem cell method for curing different diseases, and added that her ministry supports further achievements in the field. - 7/15/11
30 percent of Iranians are overweight: Tehran Medical Sciences University Chancellor
Mohammad Bagher Larijani also said non-communicable diseases are on the rise in the country. "At least one fourth of the people are grappling with risk factors such as high blood pressure or extra weight," Larijani explained. - 7/10/11
Distinguished Scientist Mina Bissell wins Jill Rose Award
Mina Bissell, a distinguished scientist in the life sciences division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been named the recipient of the 2011 Jill Rose Award by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. - 7/4/11
Iran's War on Narcotics: Police Seize Large Amounts of Narcotics in 2 Days
Iranian Law Enforcement Police forces have seized over 2 tons of different types of illicit drugs in separate operations in Iran's Southeastern province of Kerman during the last 48 hours, the provincial police department announced on Sunday. - 7/3/11
Iran Exports 20 Kg of Rosa Damascena Oil Annually
Iran exports 15 to 20 Kilograms of Rosa Damascena Oil a year mostly to Germany, Switzerland, France, United Sates and Malaysia. The product is mostly used for producing high quality perfumes and cosmetics but it is also very good for pain relief, heart disease and skin care. - 6/27/11
UN Sees Decline In Afghan Opium Production But Predicts Rise
Despite a sharp decline in opium production in 2010 and a modest reduction in coca cultivation, the global manufacturing of heroin and cocaine remains at significantly high levels, according to a new report from the United Nation's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). - 6/24/11
Iran scientists build tactile tumor detector robot for breast cancer
Iranian scientists managed to build the first indigenous tactile tumor detector robot for breast cancer as they took another giant scientific step. - 6/22/11
In Iran, a Brotherhood of Doctors and Patients
Few doctors anywhere in the world have done their country a greater service than the Iranian brothers Arash and Kamiar Alaei. Kamiar, who is 37, is currently living in Albany, N.Y., where he is working on a doctorate in public health. Arash, who is 42, is a resident of Tehran's notorious Evin prison - where until recently, Kamiar lived as well. -Tina Rosenberg, NY Times - 6/22/11
Iranian Physicians and HIV/AIDS Advocates Win 2011 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights
Drs. Kamiar and Arash Alaei, known for putting issues related to HIV/AIDS on Iran's national health care agenda, are winners of the 2011 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights. - 6/17/11
Iran Unveils Smart Surgical System
The domestically-built system could be applied for surgery of ear, pharynx, nose as well as brain and nervous system. The smart surgery system was unveiled in Tehran Medical Science University in a ceremony led by Ahmadinejad. - 6/9/11
Photos: Harvesting Wild Rhubarb in Mashhad
Rhubarb is a group of plants that belong to the genus Rheum in the family Polygonaceae. They are herbaceous perennial plants growing from short, thick rhizomes. Although the leaves are toxic, various parts of the plants have culinary and medicinal uses. -Hossein Hosseinzadeh - 6/8/11
Nations Oppose Delay In Eradication Of Smallpox Virus
Most countries including Iran oppose to the US and Russia's plan to postpone the destruction of their last remaining stocks of deadly smallpox virus. - 5/25/11
Photos: Iran officially opens transgenic mice research center
Iran officially opened transgenic mice research center after initial months-long activities in a bid to expand studies on the domain. The project has been pursued since 2009 and it has been working since late 2010 during which three kinds of transgenic mice have been generated. - 5/23/11
Tehran Prosecutor Challenges Iranian Health Minister
Ten detained hospital workers say they were just following orders from their superiors when they abandoned three patients in a remote area for failing to pay for medical services, according to Tehran's prosecutor. - 5/5/11
Iranian Health Minister says needy patients not denied medical services
Last week, the office of Tehran prosecutor announced that two patients who were being treated at a hospital on the night of April 14 were moved from the hospital and abandoned in a farm outside the city because they were unable to pay for their hospital services. -Zamaneh - 5/4/11
Iranian-American Surgeon Travels World Doing Charity Cases
Kaveh Alizadeh, an Iranian-American plastic surgeon who immigrated to the US following the 1979 revolution, has traveled back to his native country for more than a decade to perform volunteer surgeries on Iranian patients living in remote villages. - 5/1/11
Photos: Prosthetic Limbs Shop in Tehran
These photos show prosthetic limb making and retrofitting in Iranian capital city Tehran. Due to hundreds of thousands of injuries during Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), prosthetic limbs were in big demand, and Iran developed expertise in making them. -Majid Asgaripour - 4/25/11
Iranian Ministry Cracks Down On 'Immoral' Sex Ads
Iran's Ministry for Cultural and Islamic Guidance has demanded that pharmacies remove "immoral" advertisements for products such as condoms and anti-impotence drugs. The demand came in a letter to the Health Ministry on April 20. - 4/22/11
Iranian children aged 6-12 now covered by dental insurance
All of Iran's health care centers have been informed that children aged 6-12 now have dental insurance, in line with a government decision made over the past year, the director of the Department of Mouth and Teeth Health of the Health Ministry announced on Wednesday. - 4/13/11
Iranian researchers produce new medicine for cancer treatment
A team of researchers from the Islamic Azad University of Qazvin has produced an effective medicine for the treatment of several types of cancer. -MNA - 4/12/11
Springer book on fertility awarded prestigious prize in Iran
The Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction has been selected as this year's winner of the World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran. - 2/10/11
Photos: Embryonic Twin Found In Stomach Of A Young Man
A 22-year-old young man in Kerman province, southeast Iran, suffering from stomach pain was found to be carrying his embryonic twin, according to a report by Mehr News Agency. -Khosrow Parkhideh - 1/31/11
Medical Tourism in Iran: Analysis of Opportunities and Challenges with MADM Approach
This study aims to define the challenges and opportunities of medical tourism industry in Iran and propose some mechanisms to make Iran prosper with this new Industry. -Medwell Publishing - 1/27/11
Stuxnet of concern for Iranian health ministry
Islamic Republic health ministry warned that Iranian medical systems may have been infected with the Stuxnet worm. Mehr news agency reported today that the research and technology branch of the health ministry announced that the Stuxnet worm could cause medical imaging systems to dysfunction. -Zamaneh - 1/24/11
Iran Researchers Find New Method For Princer Nail Surgery
Iranian researchers found a new method for surgery of princer nails for the first time in the world. -ISNA - 1/18/11
Iran Reaches Self-Sufficiency in Blood Plasma Production
Iran announced on Saturday that it has reached self-sufficiency in producing blood plasma, which is the base material for producing a wide range of blood products. -FNA - 1/1/11
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